You must be like a pig in shit this morning.Havent played well since City, this has been coming.
Got away with it against Brentford,Sheff U and Burnley etc....
Dry January and injuries will mean a fall out of the top 5 and worse unless can Emery revitalise us.
The likes of Lenglet and Cash arent good enough. Tielemans Diaby and Zaniolo flatter to deceive. McGinn and Watkins? Their form, like the team,has fallen off the edge of a cliff.
Never said our recent performances had been comfortable but our position going into last night’s game was imo whichever way you want to prove your point. Fourth place, same points as Arsenal and City, three above Spurs and eight above West Ham. If you lose games of course that then changes and unless we improve, we could easily lose a few more and our position in the top 4/5 will obviously come under pressure. We can all see the team isn’t performing at present but we’re still in an excellent position irrespective of current form and last night’s result. Even a negative mindset can see that as a fact surely.Nope just proving the point that we are not comfortable! I would have rather have been wrong any day of the week obviously
That performance has been coming. Let's be honest with ourselves since citeh we have been poor to average. We were awful against Sheffield united and should have lost that game, we were crap aginst united, not great vs everton, and rubbish last night
If anything he'll bring freshness.. We look very leggy.This is why Morgan is being signed as I think he will play in and around this position, he seems more of a creator.
100% agree and was going to say the same. We performed better with Digne in the side. If Digne was fit then Moreno wouldn't be a miss at the moment. But as other positions there is no choice and that is the biggest issue at the moment imho.We're all saying how we're missing Torres and what he brings to the team but I think Digne has been just as big a miss as it looks like Moreno still isn't 100% and looks like he doesn't quite trust his body yet to really stretch his legs and get to the bye line like he was doing consistently last season. Digne just gives us a bit more solidity
That's the spirit.It's not really any different to any other season where we have been challenging near the top of the table, we find ourselves in 4th or even higher and then bottle it when the business end of the season comes around. It's not tiredness or lack of squad depth really, other teams around us have a favoured starting 11 and only really City and Liverpool have any real depth, and January has been a quiet month on the game front and we had a winter break this year.
I've pretty much written off 4th now because Spurs will probably overtake us after they beat Brentford and if midtable Newcastle who had won once away all season can batter us at VP like that then Spurs will too. I'll probably write 5th place off if we fail to beat the worst team in the league in Sheffield United on Saturday too.
And therein lies the issue , whereas Man City and Liverpool have the quality of player to solve these problems through pure ability , we don't yet.Based on this season, Howe does have Emery's number, on both occasions they have been tactically spot on.
But both times our players haven't been at the races, for excusable reasons in the away fixture and less so in this one.Based on this season, Howe does have Emery's number, on both occasions they have been tactically spot on.
Wow.Beat Man U at home next week and this one will be quickly forgotten, I never wanna leave a game on 52 minutes again. I was in bed before it was even finished.